Since airships are often in the air for more than eight hours, could the 's' just be misplaced, as in "The pilots in charge of an airship"? Airplanes, one pilot; Airships, a contingent of pilots sharing the title Captain, holding it while on duty.

Edited by mehaul (Sun Sep 25 201101:30 AM)

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No, in the context, the position is singular. There may be several who work as Captain but there is only one at a time acting in the capacity.

This way (example):I am an airship pilot. My cousin is also an airship pilot and, coincidently, we both Captain the WAS Blimp. He does the day work and I do the difficult night celestial navigating duty. The WAS Blimp only has one Captain but two pilots. We exchange command of the bridge, and Captaincy, on a routine schedule. Since we are not in the military we hold no 'rank' as captain. The job we perform is one of being Captain. We both need raises by the way. My cousin and I are much like Station from the 'Bill and Ted' movies, two individuals acting in concert.

Edited by mehaul (Sun Sep 25 201108:44 AM)

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O.k., I get that, but the entry doesn't state it is all the pilots who captain in one journey - if the entry said "sergeant" you wouldn't feel the need to include everyone who holds the position, surely?

Also, only one person is acting as Captain at any one point in time, so I am inclined to agree with reeshy that the singular is more normal grammatically, logically and factually, even though we can think of a set of circumstances that might allow the plural.

Isn't this where obscure definitions have to be accepted? If one of the definitions of Captain describes the role played by multiple personages, then it should be accepted here as a possible response even though its not the most well known.My initial post on this was only to show that the ins typo may not be the only way an error occurred in this instance (An extra letter s versus a misplaced s). Why do we bother at all to post errors here? Nothing can be done to change anything since the content is not FT's to control. I understood these posings are from an outside source. There is no database that we can correct the content of. Unless Terry has editing power in his agreement to use the dictionaries that are the source. Why do the same errors keep coming up? Our input here doesn't fix them. That means this thread is just to discuss the errors encountered in the game. Discussing an error is all I did.

Edited by mehaul (Sun Sep 25 201111:56 PM)

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mehaul, I agree with you (even though I disagreed about the typo!). Could be that it is just an eggheaded linguist type of thing (guilty), but I like discussing obscure items in this thread. It's not so much about getting the database fixed, which is not a possibility right now, it's about having fun discussions. I guess they're not fun for all, but I figure if you aren't interested don't join in.

Stiffled giggle (SG) as opposed to an outright LOL. Eggheaded/smegheaded linguist's linguini is a fine repast/repartee. Is pleading guilty in this case a form of expressed retention of a sort?So, why the specification of airship rather than just ship or ocean vessel in the answer?

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OK (sorry to be so dense with technical stuff), I've got an email from my bank saying that the amount has been transferred to my paypal account (another minefield for me) and willl be processed by 5th October.

Does that mean it automatically goes to FT, or do I then have to go back to my paypal account and transfer it to FT myself?